Community Partners & Events

Community partners and events provide opportunities for students, educators, and community members to

• network face to face *

• participate in activities that further develop insight into creativity and innovation in our schools and in our lives.

•  help design and support the CSI challenges

•  provide opportunities for students to showcase their CSI Challenge projects

• expose stuents to role models  relating to college and career opportunities

• bring educators out of the classroom and provide valuable professional development by increasing educators’ connection to each other and to the larger community

• provide professional development and support further learning into the process of creativity and innovation

Existing events for collaboration with community partners include: 

• Tech Jam 2010:  http://www.vermont3.com/2010-techjam-home.html

• Engineering Day

• Open Source Conference

• Scratch Day

• Educational Tehnology Conferences

Community Partners:

• Vermont Virtual Learning Co-op (VTVLC),  

• Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce (LCRCC)

• Champlain College Game Design Program (CC-GDP),

• National Center for Open Source in Education (NCOSE)

• University of Vermont School of Mathematics and Engineering  (UVM),

• Young Writers Project

• Vermont Midi Project

• Indiana University (P4) Project (tentative)

*Creative educators need to network together to reduce the isolation and fuel their own creativity. The CSI project brings like-minded creative educators and community members together to deepen their inquiry into finding best practices for developing creative and innovative thinkers in the upcoming generation.

**Using existing events increases the likelihood of sustainability and maximizes the use of the network by using these resources to increase awareness and understanding of the impact of creativity and innovation in society to both teachers and students.